Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Mehoopany, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Mehoopany lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mehoopany — the short answer
Mehoopany, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 188 days between hard freezes, across 649 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~188
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 649 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 6b is Mehoopany's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mehoopany's 188-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mehoopany
Each reading below is measured for Mehoopany itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMehoopany runs about 188 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMehoopany sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Mehoopany is in
Mehoopany sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mehoopany's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wyoming County.
What Grows in Mehoopany
Every plant below cleared Mehoopany's own zone 6b and its 188-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mehoopany?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Mehoopany
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Mehoopany, first recorded 2018. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Mehoopany
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mehoopany. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NORTH BRANCH TWP SPVRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- DANDY MINI MART 41Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- PROCTER & GAMBLE PAPER PROD CO/MEHOOPANYBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- PROCTER & GAMBLE PAPER PROD CO/MEHOOPANYToxics Release Inventory · 0.9 mi
- LYMAN G WALTERS JRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- MEHOOPANY TWP MUNI BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- ATC MEHOOPANY FACUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- BKV OPERATING WARREN YARDBrownfields · 2.6 mi
- WY 130Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- WY 195Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- WY 25Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- SR 3007 OVER RBMN RAILROAD MPMS 83059Brownfields · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mehoopany's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Mehoopany.
Total Sites
184
within ~10 miles of Mehoopany
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mehoopany
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mehoopany
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mehoopany, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 70 sites within ~10 miles of Mehoopany. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Mehoopany
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mehoopany average
Your land is one point inside Mehoopany
Everything above resolves to Mehoopany as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 649 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Mehoopany Average
Mehoopany Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Mehoopany
- ●One soil character for all of Mehoopany
- ●Frost dates read at Mehoopany's scale: Apr 20 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mehoopany's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mehoopany
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mehoopany averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mehoopany — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mehoopany average
How we know this about Mehoopany
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Mehoopany’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Mehoopany
When does frost risk typically end in Mehoopany?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mehoopany typically lands around Apr 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 11.
When is the first frost in Mehoopany?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mehoopany typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 188 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mehoopany?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mehoopany sees about 188 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Oct 11, about 153 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mehoopany?
The federal record around Mehoopany shows 184 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (82), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Mehoopany?
From about Sep 25 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mehoopany's scale — its 6b band and its 188-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mehoopany's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Mehoopany’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Mehoopany's own scale — its own ~188-day season between 28°F freezes, the 649 acres it covers and 184 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mehoopany's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mehoopany's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Oct 25 and the ~188-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 184 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mehoopany, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mehoopany's boundary and the 649 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~188-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mehoopany's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Mehoopanylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mehoopany's 649 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wyoming County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wyoming County
- The growing challenges every Pennsylvania grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Pennsylvania
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Wyoming County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mehoopany's 649 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mehoopany you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 649 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Mehoopany-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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